Today was supposed to be the climbing day I’d ‘earned’ after another tough week’s running but, with my prospective partner’s legs apparently screaming/shot from skiing yesterday and me not fancying yet another run on some purgatorially snow-compromised local off-road course, I had to find something else to do. So I headed up to the Quoich Dam (about 60 miles drive to the NW) for a walk up the good looking, isolated little Munro of Gairich, which I found largely bare of snow lower down, but properly wintry with good snow cover (and poor visibility) over the top 200m or so. Now of course it was worthwhile and I enjoyed it (have had my eye on Gairich for a while), but I’m still wanting to climb and sincerely hoping for the right combination of conditions and partner(s) next weekend!
